Just a tip, prohibitionists- BS 'reports' like this only make you look really desperate and dishonest. If you want to prove there are links to marijuana and some health risk, do the science- double blind tests of randomly selected people, with extensive medical background checks to rule out any extenuating factors. Until you do that, STFU.

Let's be generous and say both of these deaths were caused by marijuana. That would make them the first two in recorded history. Compare those deaths to those caused by alcohol or tobacco. Statistically speaking, they both killed over a hundred people yesterday in the US alone. Yet those are completely legal under federal law while marijuana is a Schedule I substance. Where is the logic in that situation?

Serious Black:Let's be generous and say both of these deaths were caused by marijuana. That would make them the first two in recorded history. Compare those deaths to those caused by alcohol or tobacco. Statistically speaking, they both killed over a hundred people yesterday in the US alone. Yet those are completely legal under federal law while marijuana is a Schedule I substance. Where is the logic in that situation?

"We assume the deaths of these two young men occurred due to arrhythmias evoked by smoking cannabis," but this assumption does not rule out that the men were predisposed to cardiovascular risks, they wrote.

I would want to note that one of the individuals had a known issue with amphetamine abuse - that probably tore their heart a new one or weakened it severely. Not to mention, the body's had "THC" which isn't metabolized thoroughly from the body for up to 30 days because it hangs out in your fat cells. Cocaine metabolites are found only within 3-days after use.

I thought I was going to die from the marijuanas once because my throat closed up from a bong hit and I couldn't breathe. But then my airway opened up and I was sooooooo high and my brain shifted from "OH GOD I'M GOING TO DIE" to "I want pancakes" and then I won the lottery and saved the president and had sex with three chicks at once so everything worked out.

MaudlinMutantMollusk:"We assume the deaths of these two young men occurred due to arrhythmias evoked by smoking cannabis," but this assumption does not rule out that the men were predisposed to cardiovascular risks, they wrote.

The man had a small amount of marijuana in his pockets when he was found, according to the researchers at the Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Duesseldorf in Germany, who reported the case.

In the second case described in the report, a 28-year-old man was found dead at home by his girlfriend. An ashtray, rolling paper and a sealable plastic bag containing remnants of marijuana were found next to the body.

they don't even know if they had any in their system? this is just a guess because some was nearby?

is this a joke/onion article?

(I'm sure someone actually did some tests, but the article just provides the above as evidence of pot smoking)

It sounds like these two degenerates injected one too many marihuanas. I am sure that their mothers are so proud of their little snowflakes ending up in the news as just another casualty of rampant liberalism.

FTA:In the second case described in the report, a 28-year-old man was found dead at home by his girlfriend. An ashtray, rolling paper and a sealable plastic bag containing remnants of marijuana were found next to the body. The man had occasionally used cannabis, the researchers wrote. He had also abused alcohol and drugs, such as amphetamines and cocaine until about two years before his death, they wrote. ["After exclusion of other causes of death, we assume that the young men died from cardiovascular complications evoked by<a data-rapid_p="11" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.livescience.com/24558-marijuana-effect s.html" >smoking="" cannabis,"="" the="" researchers="" wrote.

Are you farking kidding me? You think those earlier drugs didn't cause any lasting damage? I'm going to guess he smoked cigarettes, too, which have a MUCH higher contribution to cardiovascular conditions.

special20:I love the correlations that "experts" make when trying to force their agenda of fascism on free people.

The "experts" are Forensic Toxicologists in Germany - a country with fairly liberal drug laws compared to the US - who published a study intending to help in forensic death examinations where a contributing cause might escape an investigator. The journal it was published in has nothing to do except with the medicolegal aspects of death investigation.

The man had occasionally used cannabis, the researchers wrote. He had also abused alcohol and drugs, such as amphetamines and cocaine until about two years before his death, they wrote. "After exclusion of other causes of death, we assume that the young men died from cardiovascular complications evoked by smoking cannabis," the researchers wrote.

Oh yeah, the guy smoked meth and crack, but POT made his heart asplode.

"You know it is so funny that all these dreadlock wearing, bloodshot eyed and smelly marijuana people are using pointless comparisons of "Oh alcohol kills more", "Oh it is not the cause of these two people's death", and other pointless arguments is laughable.

Look they are doctors. Doctors go to school for years to be doctors. Doctors don't need to lie because they are going to get paid no matter what. Doctors have a moral code not to lie. If they misdiagnosed something they can get sued and get their medical licenses suspended. Therefore when a doctor said that those marijuana drug burnouts died from smoking that smelly marijuna stuff guess what? They died.

So please marijuana burnout people don't change the story so you can have an excuse to smoke that smelly stuff." -smelly marijuana people, because, doctors.